Hope, Humility and Humor

10 07 2009

Thoughts are things and things have wings.  You bring about what you think about.thoughts-wings

HOPE
“Great hopes make great men.” — Thomas Fuller

“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings.” — William Shakespeare

“A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.” — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” — Martin Luther

HUMILITY
“You can’t brag that you’re humble… and be humble.” — Terry McEwen

“A great man is always willing to be little.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.” — George Eliot

“Humility is a virtue; timidity is a disease.” — Jim Rohn

HUMOR

“The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for ten minutes.” — William Davis

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” — Bill Cosby

“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

“The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities–a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt


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